“Can this device be connected to my hotel WiFi so I can login with a new secure password”
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Yes, it will connect. There are usually two ways to connect when just using your laptop. First, you connect to the hotel wifi using ssid and password. The second is when you connect directly to the wifi, but then a web page appears and you need to enter informaiton and/or do a confirmation. Both ways are supported. In the router setup, there is a Quick setup option that searches for SSIDs and you can enter a password. You can also define what you want your 2.4 and 5ghz SSIDs to be in the router. However, the travel router cannot process the popup web page in the second case above (there is no screen or keyboard). The prescribed way to support this is to connect to the hotel wifi with your laptop, and then enter the acknowledge info on the web page. Then disconnect from the hotel wifi, connect to your router wifi and select MAC clone under Network. This makes the router temporarily use your MAC address from your laptop. So when you choose Quick Setup, the hotel host already has your MAC address stored, so you don't get the web page login. It works great. I use it all the time at hotels, panera, starbucks. I use the travel router a lot at starbucks. Once I configure it to use my MAC address and run quick setup, I can move from starbucks to starbucks and just plug in the router and it works. No need to re-setup. Whenever I visit a new place like a hotel or panera, I do have to reconfigure, and then reconfigure if I go back to starbucks. I am at starbucks now near Austin. I plugged in the wifi router. By the time I turn on my laptop, the router is ready and I connect to my own SSID which has been bridged to starbucks SSID. Never use a public wifi without a encryption: travel router like this device or a VPN.
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